Immodestly adds inline photos and even more Polish to their iPhone app

MG Siegler wrote to TechCrunch since 2009. It covers web, mobile, social, big companies, small companies, in fact all. And Apple. A lot. Prior to TechCrunch he covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, mg attended the University of Michigan. He had previously lived in Los Angeles, where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where ... ? Read More

Back in the day, knock on immodestly iPhone app used to be that he was not very visually appealing. This is especially true in comparison with rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past few months. And now that Foursquare has extensive finance and larger group to deal with the painful consequences of rapid growth, they are putting a lot of attention to how things look and feel. And it pays off.

Today brings the update to the iPhone app that brings a new coat of arms of Poland. First of all, you'll see that the pictures are now displayed in the text when you view your check-in activity stream. This corresponds to the functionality that was recently added to immodestly Web site. He not only ups visual appeal, it makes service to feel more alive and personal.

This new, more visual experience permeates the entire app.config if you land a spot on the page and click through to see who is there, if any of your friends, you'll see their photos and shouts from this place inline.

Updating Foursquare also touting a common design tweaks, including the caption of the clean up. One thing that will please many users is to add more tasks to a TAP within the app previously, you had to focus on tiny comment bubbles to leave a comment. Now you can click on the check itself to do so.

One thing not yet included in this update: lists. New feature that Foursquare launched yesterday on their Web site continues to work on mobile. But it goes in the next version, they promise. In addition, all these new features should be presented in the Android and BlackBerry applications soon.

Soon to be live iPhone app when it, find it here.

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Foursquare is a location based social network that includes gameplay elements. Users share their location with friends check in via the Smartphone app "or text message.

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